Experience with infrared quartz heater
 

Want to improve heating my house-at lower cost.
The inrared quartz heater sounds good.
Anyone have experience with this heater?

Experience with infrared quartz heater
 

Experience with infrared quartz heater
 

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Want to improve heating my house-at lower cost.
The inrared quartz heater sounds good.
Anyone have experience with this heater?

Quartz infrared lamps are great for a garage or other area where you want to
heat people or things, but not the air. As a bonus, they give out a lot of
light and lamp life is virtually indefinite. But electric BTUs are
expensive and I keep the burning hours short.

This type of heating does not make much sense for heating a whole house.
For one thing, with quartz infrared lamps, the heat is focused, not general.
If a house is to be heated with electric heat, I've found that baseboard
units work the best since they're usually placed to cancel out the heat lost
through perimeter walls and floors.

TKM

Experience with infrared quartz heater
 

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Want to improve heating my house-at lower cost.
The inrared quartz heater sounds good.
Anyone have experience with this heater?

They produce heat very efficiently. They are good for one room or area. In
most locations, electric is very expensive and it will not save any money,
but you get one comfy room and the rest of the house cold for the same money
as burning oil or gas for the entire home. Not knowing your utility cost,
how much you want to heat, temperature, etc. it is not possible to make
accurate suggestions. .

Experience with infrared quartz heater
 

Experience with infrared quartz heater
 

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:54:07 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

wrote:
Want to improve heating my house-at lower cost.
The inrared quartz heater sounds good.
Anyone have experience with this heater?

A 5000 watt quartz heater produces exactly the same amount of heat as a 5000
watt resistive coil heater. Virtually all electric heaters produce the same
amount of heat for a given wattage.

But. . . if you sit directly in front of the quartz version you will
feel warmer. [if it really is emitting IR in the right spectrum- the
best won't give off any light and will be about 120-30 degrees if
memory serves]

Jim